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Answer for the clue "Country that knocked the US Men's National Team out of the World Cup ", 7 letters:
belgium

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 1678 Housing Units (2000): 592 Land area (2000): 1.442838 sq. miles (3.736934 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.442838 sq. miles (3.736934 sq. km) FIPS code: 06150 Located within: Wisconsin ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "Low Germany and the Netherlands," from the Latin name of the territory near here occupied by the Belgæ , a Celtic tribe. Adopted 1830 as the name of a new nation formed from the southern part of the former United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Usage examples of belgium.

The Ardennes covers part of Luxembourg and most of the lower corner of Belgium that separates Germany from France.

Bosquet, sent me a drawing of a perfect specimen of an unmistakeable sessile cirripede, which he had himself extracted from the chalk of Belgium.

One of our friends who has just come back from the coast reports that there were a lot of French troops marching through Belgium on their way from Dunkerque to Lille--evidently an attempt to turn the German right wing.

Board of Trade, in its reports on agencies and methods of dealing with unemployed in foreign countries, drew attention to the very considerable extension of Labour Exchanges in the last three years in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, and Belgium.

Now the British Expeditionary Army numbered but three or four hundred thousand men, spread from the bases at Havre and along the coast forward to the line, compared with nearly a hundred French divisions, or over two million Frenchmen, actually holding the long front from Belgium to Switzerland.

Thus a German attempt to sweep through Belgium - and perhaps Holland - to flank the Maginot Line would be met very early in the game by the entire B.

The result of this fascinating cultural mix is that Belgium has a number of official languages, including French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Latin, Cajun, Moldavian, and Frantic Arm Gestures.

Stern, the daughter of a pastor at Mulhouse, spoke against the violation of Belgium.

Nevertheless these changes were brought about only very gradually, and in the 17th century, when Rembrandt lived and painted this picture, a great stir was made by the new ideas of astronomy taught by Galileo in Italy, and the new discoveries in chemistry made by Van Helmont in Belgium.

Belgium, over into France to Roubaix and Tourcoing, but be the local language German-French-or-Polish we all understand it.

Belgium, frustrated by a reluctant sannyasin, she asked him how much money he had.

Flanders is not like Wallon Belgium, which always looks as though left over from the last century.

This man was in Brussels, forty miles north of where the Emperor invaded Belgium.

It was plain to every milkmaid and street sweeper in the rue Royale that this British officer was glad to be alive, delighted to be in Belgium, and that he expected every one in Brussels to share his evident enjoyment of life, health and happiness.

He described the wide boulevards in Belgium lined with trees, the Champs Elysses in Paris, the great coffeehouses in Vienna with their wonderful pastries and the nightlife of Berlin.